Yeshua was born Ruan Joshua Harding in 1964 in Winnipeg, Canada. He began school at four in Montessori and went on to St.
John’s Ravenscourt. However, most of his childhood years were spent in and out of hospitals as he had a rare illness
which frequently required him to have oxygen and special treatments in clinics. Doctors originally believed the illness to
be Cystic Fibrosis but later ruled this out and assumed viral allergies were the cause. During this time he saw many of his
young friends pass on and he began to think about what life and death actually meant.
His mother, the artist Marion Harding, had been a nurse who moved to London, England where she worked for
a famous German, Jewish surgeon (Ernst Blumberg). Ernst was himself the son of a famous medical family, his father Moritz
Jacob Blumberg having invented the Blumberg Sign. She was also an artist’s model on the vibrant Chelsea scene
of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. She later married Ernst and began to study and to paint, meeting Picasso
and having her portrait done by Arthur Pan, painter of the Churchill portrait in the National Trust.
In 1975 Yeshua’s family moved to the south coast of England. In 1982 Yeshua went to Sussex University
and studied Biology with John Maynard-Smith, a world respected figure in Evolutionary Biology. He then moved to London in
1987 where he won an award to complete two years of post-graduate research at the Guildhall. He later went on to complete
further post-graduate studies in the Faculty of Spirituality at the Pontificial University 'Angelicum' in Rome where Pope
John Paul II had received his doctorate.
Following several years of teaching in London, where he won a Government Inspector’s Award from OFSTED,
Yeshua moved to Rome, Italy in 1997 where he worked for the Gonzaga Family, an Italian aristocratic family. The Gonzaga family
had originally helped to build the Vatican Library hundreds of years previously and have always maintained a relationship
with the Vatican. The Patron Saint of the family was the young Jesuit Luigi Gonzaga who had died very young helping plague
victims in Rome.
It was Princess Gonzaga who personally introduced him to His Eminence the Archbishop Antonio Pietroborgo
who is a renowned healer in Italy and is known as Padre Nino. After working with Nino for some time Yeshua made the decision
to embrace Roman Catholicism as his faith and was guided in his conversion by Padre Stefano Canuto, a friend of Nino working
in the Vatican. After completing studies with Stefano, Nino and Professor Giardini at the Angelicum (specializing in the work
of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ‘Fear of Death and Dying’) Yeshua had the rare experience to be baptized, anointed (Confirmed)
and First Communion in a triple ceremony on the night of the Easter Vigil, April 11th 1998 with His Holiness Pope
John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basillica, Vatican City. The ceremonial Mass lasted three hours and was televised globally
through Centro Televisivo Vaticano broadcasting.
Yeshua began working in the Vatican as a Catechist and also worked on many medical and bio-ethical articles
for a new Vatican encyclopedia ‘Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Science and Faith’. He continued to work with
both Padre Stefano and Nino and later on for the Italian Senate in the office of President Marini, the current Italian President
of the Senate. Yeshua has also worked as a professional intuitive, written, translated, taught and lectured throughout Europe
and North America including such venues as Queens University, New York and within the Vatican itself.
Yeshua married his wife in the Vatican on September 29th, 1999 in the Parish of St.Anne’s
with Padre Stefano as the celebrant. Their wedding was blessed by Pope John Paul II in a Public Audience in St. Peter’s
Square two weeks later on their return from their Honeymoon. They have a beautiful daughter who lives with her mother in Rome.
Yeshua's experiences with illness, his studies and research lead him to what he does today which is healing
in its purest form. Over a period of time the vocation to heal epitomized for Yeshua the highest form of human creativity.
Studying, writing and teaching brought him into cancer wards and other institutions. It was within these situations coupled
with his own lifetime experiences of illness that forged his gift for healing. This healing gift has lead him to work and
meet with many extraordinary and wonderful people, both simple and exalted. He explained in a recent newspaper interview that:
"Really all I do is connect with a person’s energy field, find out what is going on intuitively and
then connect with what I see as a Divine element and ask for guidance. I think that realizing the connection between energy
and matter is fundamental to healing and hope that in the future modern medicine will take on more of a holistic and integrative
approach incorporating spiritual, emotional and psychological factors together with the physical".
